Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, the Nazis warned the Japanese that their codes might have been broken, but Tokyo refused to believe the Americans were smart enough for such a feat. Just as ironically, while U.S. code breakers knew of the Japanese warships heading for Southeast Asia, Nagumo's radio silence meant that his carriers heading for Pearl Harbor simply disappeared. On Dec. 2, Kimmel's intelligence officer confessed that nothing had been heard from the Japanese carriers for about two weeks...
...recycling process has been pushed to peak capacity by a profusion of cable channels searching for low-cost programming to fill their schedules. Nick at Nite woos baby boomers each evening with campy sitcoms like The Donna Reed Show and Get Smart. The Family Channel has cornered the market in old westerns (Wagon Train, The Virginian), while the Arts & Entertainment Network, originally conceived as a haven for fine-arts programming, now runs oldies , like The Avengers and Mrs. Columbo. Ted Turner's cable operation may attract a lot of attention with MGM movie blockbusters and environmental specials, but its most...
...Brilliance Through Osmosis. All three of my roommates were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa last week. Could this mean that someday I'll get smart...
...whatever subject we are studying. They are around because they help people to understand the significance of the material. That's why Marx and Sassure and Derrida and all those other icons of socio-eco-polilinguistic theory exist. The problem, however, is that no matter how smart we are, we are not as smart as these people yet. (That's part of the reason why we have so much trouble coming up with original ideas...
Wannabes are usually too smart to approach athletes on the playing fields. But they know all the after-game hangouts and usually can find out where visiting teams are staying. "We never reveal where we stay when we go on the road," says Arthur Triche, an executive with the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks. "But some of them are willing to call every hotel in town. When night falls, they move in. You see some of the same faces from town to town. They're like card collectors." And they are seldom shy about intentions. Recalls Miles McPherson, a former...